The job of a modern software professional has changed. It now seems to include everyone else’s.Overnight, developers, security professionals and DevOps engineers have been asked to become cloud architects, AI whisperers, security sentinels and compliance officers. This isn’t just “shifting left.” It’s a total gravitational collapse where the entire business—its innovation, its revenue, its risk—now orbits the software supply chain. This new reality is the Quantum Shift, a fundamental change that demands new thinking. This is the central challenge we are taking head-on at swampUP 2025.The Unsustainable Weight of ComplexityThe pressure on engineering teams stems from the explosion of tools…
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Say you’ve got a page with a bunch of elements on it. Your goal is to be able to send someone to that page with one particular details element open. I was doing just this recently, and my first thought was to do it server-side. If the URL was like website.com/#faq-1 I’d see if faq-1 matches an ID of the details element and I’d put the open attribute on it like . But no, you don’t get to have the #hash as part of the URL server side (for whatever reason 🤷♀️). Then I started writing JavaScript to do it,…
Broadcom today at the VMware Explore 2025 conference unfurled a set of developer services for the instance of Kubernetes it has embedded into its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform that includes the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform.At the same time, Broadcom expanded its alliance with Canonical to include enterprise-grade support for instances of VCF running on top of the Ubuntu OS platform.The instance of Kubernetes that is embedded into VCF will also now support Chiseled Ubuntu containers, which minimize footprints by removing unnecessary packages, utilities, and libraries to enable faster download times, reduced storage costs, and faster startup.Finally, Broadcom is…
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DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
During a recent consulting engagement with a premier client, I encountered a critical performance bottleneck that led to an interesting discovery about data format choices in SQL Server. The client was debating between JSON and XML for their new data integration pipeline, and performance was a key deciding factor. What started as a simple recommendation turned into a comprehensive benchmarking exercise that revealed some surprising insights. Let us see blog post about JSON vs XML. Here you can read more about Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.The Business ChallengeMy client was modernizing their legacy data integration system that processed thousands of…
Enterprise software development has long been plagued by a fundamental disconnect: the gap between architectural intent and actual implementation. Static diagrams gather dust while code evolves, compliance reviews create month-long bottlenecks, and architectural decisions become lost knowledge scattered across documentation that nobody reads. Morgan Stanley felt this pain acutely until they decided to solve it with code.On August 15, 2025, Morgan Stanley open-sourced CALM (Common Architecture Language Model) v1.0 through FINOS, marking a pivotal moment for the DevOps community. This isn’t just another tool release; it’s a battle-tested solution that has already streamlined over 1,400 internal deployments at Morgan Stanley…
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Over the last 14-plus years of my journey through DevOps, I’ve had the good fortune to meet some of the smartest, most generous, most forward-thinking people in our industry. It’s one of the things I’m most thankful for—the friendships and shared learning that come from being part of a community that is always pushing boundaries. And of all the brilliant people I’ve met, none has been more influential, inspiring, or personally meaningful to me than my friend John Willis.My only regret is that I didn’t get the chance to meet John 30 or 35 years ago. Oh the things we…
Embracing the New ParadigmFabric real-time data signals a fundamental shift in how organizations transform raw information into actionable insights. For decades, leaders have relied on batch processing as the primary method of collecting, updating and analyzing data at scheduled intervals. While this approach offered predictability, it introduced latency, making decisions feel historical rather than current. In contrast, fabric real-time data delivers continuous streams of information that empower teams to respond instantly to emerging trends, anomalies, and opportunities.The Limitations of Batch ProcessingBatch processing brings structure by grouping data tasks into discrete cycles, but it also imposes a trade-off between scale and…